100 years ago: KU engineering students plan ‘Stunt Day’

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 30, 1911:

  • “After the parts are gathered up and bolted together again, Dr. Keith’s new auto will not look any better than his old machine. Last night while trying to make the garage before his light flickered entirely out, the doctor veered a trifle on the serpentine Mississippi where it circles the hill parallel with the car tracks. The next instant his machine had crashed through the fence and was poised over the railway embankment. The collision tore away both fenders, steps and part of the car’s control. It was pulled into the garage and is being assembled today.”
  • “The students in the School of Engineering have been planning a ‘stunt day’ for months. Friday will witness the consummation of carefully laid plans to institute a day of celebration for the engineers to be held once every year. At 12 o’clock noon, the procession will form in front of Marvin hall and march over the campus and then down to the business district of the city. All students in the different departments will wear the working clothes commonly worn by those engaged in the various branches of engineering work. After affording the natives of Massachusetts street an opportunity to see what real, live engineers in their labor toggery look like anyway, the marchers will march themselves out to McCook field.”